Georges Perec

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1978
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Life

    Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Structured around a single moment in time 8:00 p.m. on J...

  • Life: a Users Manual

    This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty year...

  • W, or the Memory of Childhood

    From the author of Life A User’s Manual comes an equally astonishing novel, W or The Memory of Childhood, a narrative that reflects a great writer’s effort to come to terms with his childhood and his part in the Nazi occupation of France.
    P...

  • Things. A Story of the Sixties and "A Man Asleep"

    The characters in both these short novels look for different ways to achieve happiness in a society of the sixties dominated by acquisition and ownership. The author won the Prix Renaudot, 1965 for "Things"....

  • The Winter Journey

    One of a series of small-format books devoted to short texts. This tells of the discovery, by an academic, of widespread plagiarism in the literary world. Returning from National Service, the academic finds the book missing and embarks on a torturous...

  • 53 Days

    Georges Perec, the celebrated author of Life: A User's Manual (Godine, 1987) and A Void, was working on this "literary thriller" at the time of his death. He had fully completed only eleven chapters of a planned twenty-eight, but left extensive draft...

  • 53 Days : A Novel

  • Three by Perec

    Perec has rightfully assumed his position in the pantheon of truly original writers of the past century. Godine has issued all but one is his books in this country, including his masterpiece Life A User's Manual. Here, in one volume, are three "easy ...

  • A Void

    “...a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana of humor, pathos, and loss.”―Time magazine

    A Void is a metaphysical whodunit, a story chock-full of plots and subplot...



  • Cantatrix Sopranica L.

  • Thoughts of Sorts

    Thoughts of Sorts, one of Georges Perec's final works, was published posthumously in France in 1985. With this translation, David Bellos, Perec's preeminent translator, has completed the Godine list of Perec's great works translated into English and ...

  • Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep

    With the American publication of Life, a User's Manual in 1987, Georges Perec was immediately recognized in the U.S. as one of this century's most innovative writers. Now Godine is pleased to issue two of his most powerful novels in one volume: Thing...

  • W or the Memory of Childhood

    Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity....

  • An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

    One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconce...

  • The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

    A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What’s the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offe...

  • Things

  • Georges Perec and the Oulipo

    In 1979, Georges Perec (1936"1982) wrote a brief entertainment called “The Winter Journey” for a publisher’s catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it recounts the discovery of ...

  • I Remember

    At once an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography, Georges Perec s I Remember is the last of this essential writer s major works to be translated into English.

    Consisting of 480 numbered statements, all...

  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

    The posthumously published first novel from the acclaimed French author of Life: A User’s Manual offers “glimpses of Perec’s future greatness” (The New Yorker).Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction wi...



  • Wishes

    “In the beginning was the pun,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. Wishes gathers together...

  • Ellis Island

  • Jag minns

  • Rummets rymder

  • Tingen

  • W eller minnet av barndomen

  • Sleeping man

    It doesn't mean you despise people; after all, why would you?Why do you despise yourself?If only belonging to the human species didn't come at the cost of those foolish steps out of the animal kingdom, and the endless dyspepsia of words, huge plans, ...

Award-Winning Books by Georges Perec

A Void
1996 Firecracker Alternative Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Georges Perec has published 26 books.

Georges Perec does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sleeping man, was published in May 2022.

The first book by Georges Perec, Life, was published in September 1978.

No. Georges Perec does not write books in series.
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